Friday, December 5, 2014

just keep swimming

My blog is collecting dust, it seems. No new words from the author lately. She has been preoccupied with work. Work.
WORK. Today I learned that a colleague
is going part-time starting January 1, and they want me to pick up some of her
work. Um well, OK. My backlog is currently 41 months, and it’s
only going to get worse if they give me more to do. But it really is OK, because maybe I’ll be
retiring next year if things fall into place for me. Also, I worked her area of the business
before (15+ years ago), and it’s interesting work – laboratory quality
control.

So similarly to the days when I was up-to-my-eyeballs in my
dissertation, I come home from WORK, sit down at my desk, and start my second
job – online adjunct professing-to-know-something (aka teaching). It’s too much sitting for me all the time –
two desk jobs. Unless I explicitly
schedule time to take Gracie for a walk or do something else for fun, it just
never happens. I need a wife – someone
who can be responsible for keeping the house clean and stuff maintained, the
bills paid, the laundry caught up, etc.
Next semester, I’m teaching two classes.
It’s only going to be worse than now.
Being the house-servant (aka wife) is really another job for me. Someone is damn lucky to be married to me (at
least, sometimes…sometimes, not so much).

Sarah came home to visit us over Thanksgiving holiday. It was fun to have all three girls home
together; it doesn’t happen often. It’s
wonderful to hear them talk and laugh together, and maybe they really do enjoy
(or at least appreciate) each other’s company more now that they are all living
in separate towns. Hopefully we can
take a vacation together next summer.
It’s never a dull moment when these three quirky-birds get together. I tried to take a decent photo of them
together but they had to be goofy.

The Walking Dead is in mid-season break until February. I miss it already. Now there will be a great two-hour void in my
life. And this, folks, is why my blog is
so…what? Nothing. My blog is shit because the highlight of my typical
week is watching a TV show.

Perhaps I’ll finish the book I’m reading, Deliver Us from
Evil (authored by Ralph Sarchie). It
really has given me a new perspective on evil and religion…especially evil, but
also the potential for a whole new plane of existence. The author tells first-person stories with
such conviction and detail that he is believable, even though the content seems
impossible. I’ve oftentimes watched Long
Island Medium and wondered how much of the show is staged and how much is
real. If her ability to communicate with
the spirit world is anything like we are led to believe in the show, then
surely Ralph Sarchie’s stories should be believed. It’s mind-boggling stuff.

Anyway, tomorrow I do some Christmas decorating and perhaps
some shopping. Also, I’ll be doing some grading and work to prepare my classrooms for the upcoming spring semester. There is much to be done…always.

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About Me

I am a lady who lives in the great state of Kentucky. I consider myself to be middle-aged...no longer young, but definitely not old. I’m married to Someone (he who shall not be named). I have three lovely daughters (Sarah, Erin, and Emily), and a lovely step-daughter, Katie. We have a dog (Gracie) and a cat (Molly). After 37 years working as a computer professional, I transitioned to higher education. I’m an adjunct professor just now, and loving my work.